Canadian Guitar Quartet Plays Roux

ByBradford Werner
2020

The fantastic Canadian Guitar Quartet with Julien Bisaillon, Renaud Côté-Giguère, Bruno Roussel, and Louis Trépanier play Prologue, Fouge, et Allegro Trépidant by Patrick Roux (b.1962). Recorded live in June 2020, at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix. This comes via their YouTube channel. Great playing as always by the quartet and nice big fugue in the second movement which makes for good ensemble exchanges and a virtuosic ending. Guitar quartets can be a difficult texture to control by the CGQ always keep tight rhythmic accents and a strong sense of growth and momentum.

Movements

0:07 Prologue
2:47 Fougue
10:30 Allegro Trépidant

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.